ISO/IEC 8859的这一部分规定了一套191 标识为拉丁文的编码图形字符 字母表5。 这组编码图形字符用于 用于数据和文本处理应用以及 也用于信息交换。 该集合包含用于 典型办公室中的通用应用 至少使用以下语言的环境: 阿尔巴尼亚语、巴斯克语、布列塔尼语、加泰罗尼亚语、丹麦语、荷兰语， 英语、法罗群岛语、芬兰语、法语（有限制， 见附件A.1，注释）、弗里斯兰语、加利西亚语、德语， 格陵兰语、爱尔兰盖尔语（新正字法）、意大利语， 拉丁语，卢森堡语，挪威语，葡萄牙语， 罗曼语、苏格兰盖尔语、西班牙语、瑞典语 还有土耳其语。 该组编码图形字符可以是 被视为8位代码的一个版本，根据 ISO/IEC 2022或ISO/IEC 4873 1级。ISO/IEC 8859的这一部分不得用于 与ISO/IEC 8859的任何其他部分结合。 如果来自多个部分的编码字符是 通过代码扩展的方式一起使用 技术，等效编码字符集 应在ISO/IEC 10367中使用 ISO/IEC 4873的2级或3级版本。 此集合中的编码字符可用于 结合选定的编码控制功能 来自ISO/IEC 6429。然而，控制功能是 不用于创建复合图形符号 两个或多个图形字符（见第6条）。 笔记？ISO/IEC 8859不适用于 ITU-T定义的远程信息处理服务。如果信息被编码 根据ISO/IEC 8859将被转移到这样的 服务，它必须符合 接入点的那些服务。

This part of ISO/IEC 8859 specifies a set of 191 coded graphic characters identified as Latin alphabet No. 5. This set of coded graphic characters is intended for use in data and text processing applications and also for information interchange. The set contains graphic characters used for general purpose applications in typical office environments in at least the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French (with restrictions, see Annex A.1, Notes), Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. This set of coded graphic characters may be regarded as a version of an 8-bit code according to ISO/IEC 2022 or ISO/IEC 4873 at level 1. This part of ISO/IEC 8859 may not be used in conjunction with any other parts of ISO/IEC 8859. If coded characters from more than one part are to be used together, by means of code extension techniques, the equivalent coded character sets from ISO/IEC 10367 should be used instead within a version of ISO/IEC 4873 at level 2 or level 3. The coded characters in this set may be used in conjunction with coded control functions selected from ISO/IEC 6429. However, control functions are not used to create composite graphic symbols from two or more graphic characters (see clause 6). NOTE ? ISO/IEC 8859 is not intended for use with Telematic services defined by ITU-T. If information coded according to ISO/IEC 8859 is to be transferred to such services, it will have to conform to the requirements of those services at the access-point.